StraightDocker
There's no source code here; it's just a place to store Windows binary releases of Docker.
The main Docker project (moby/moby) releases nightly binaries at https://master.dockerproject.org. However, only the very latest build is available, generally (there are some ancient builds there; I don't know why). I'm using this project to host a stable release point of known good builds of the Windows binaries.
A release hosted here may be simply a copy of a master.dockerproject.org nightly build, or it may consist of privately-built binaries, built from some other branch (such as to pick up new features and/or bugfixes before they get merged into Moby's master branch, which can sometimes take a while). The description of a release will tell you what is in it.
It also includes the "wincred" credential helper (docker-credential-wincred.exe) from the docker-credential-helpers project.
I use the term "straight Docker" to differentiate between "Docker for Windows" (D4W), which is a closed-source product made by Docker, Inc; and the open-source components from the Moby project ("straight Docker") which D4W builds upon.
There are some sample scripts in the sampleScripts directory that demonstrate how to
install the "straight docker" binaries.
Note that the scripts are not intended to be "production ready"; they are a sample that you can incorporate or build upon. There are plenty of things that are not handled; for instance
- it does not check for an existing installation of D4W;
- although a .json file with version info is included, there is no facility for detecting an older version and upgrading;
- it is missing proper dependency checks (e.g. it just checks if curl.exe is available to decide if your version of Windows is recent enough);
- etc.
Also note that they will enable Hyper-V and container-related features of Windows.
If you just want to try it out real quick, these commands should work (powershell):
$url = 'https://github.com/jazzdelightsme/StraightDocker/archive/master.zip' curl.exe --progress --location -o straightDockerRepo.zip $url Expand-Archive .\straightDockerRepo.zip .\straightDockerRepo\StraightDocker-master\sampleScripts\setup.ps1
(You don't need to be elevated.)
In a nutshell: it will download this repo, expand it, then run the setup.ps1 script, which will ask a couple of questions, then launch an elevated window to enable windows features, copy an LCOW kernel to ProgramFiles, and put the docker EXEs in C:\docker, and then start the docker daemon (if you already have the required features enabled; if not, you'll have to reboot first). If you are running Windows PowerShell instead of PowerShell core (pwsh), then you will also have to allow some prompts to install the ThreadJob module.